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MEDAL COLLECTIONS ON THE WEB
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HISTORICAL AND COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS Images and descriptions of over 500 medals, both European and American, dating from the 16th through the 19th centuries. This site uses the Medal as the focal point to join Art with History.
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COLLECTION OF MEDALS OF THE VATICAN Lovely collection of gold medals of the Vatican.
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About 600 beautiful images of medals by this fine German medallist. |
Over 250 years of medallic history from the reign of Louis XIV to the end of the Napoleonic era.
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Images of all the official inaugural medals of U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents. Includes an interesting History of the Official Inaugural Medal by Joe Levine.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS A comprehensive medallic and textual history of Napoleon. Includes books, drawings, engravings and photographs. |
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MEDALLIONS OF THE NAPOLEONIC ERA Hundreds of medals arranged according to the Preconsulate, Consulate, Empire, and Post Empire Napoleonic Period. |
Hundreds of fine photographs and descriptions of medals of the Napoleonic era, with standard references. |
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A useful resource for which provides the tools to upload photos and descriptions of medals from individual medal collectors.
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A comprehensive catalogue of medals, jetons and tokens of the Napoleonic era, with images and useful links. |
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A well-designed site on which collectors may display and share images and descriptions of their own medal collections online.
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A wonderfully interesting and comprehensive group of medals depicting Jews who made important contributions in various fields of endeavor. The site offers biographical sketches of each subject and informative background material, including a brief History of Jews in America. |
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A website devoted to Dutch medallic art, including Dutch sculptors and designers. In English.
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An international website of art medals and plaques, many of them art nouveau and art deco, from different countries. Includes a list of contemporary medal artists. In English, French and German. |
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A comprehensive catalogue of Art Medals. In German. |
Art Nouveau and Art Deco medals The Art Nouveau and Art Deco medals of this website are mostly from France and Belgium. Its aim is not to show as many medals as possible but the more extraordinary ones. Includes a list of contemporary artists.
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Another lovely group of art medals, mostly by French and Belgian artists. Contains a brief recent history of the art medal in Western Europe.
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medaillenkunst German Art Medals with interesting links to other related sites. In German. |
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Contains descriptions and history of the medals of the French medallist Louis Oscar Roty (1846-1911). In French and German. |
Medal collection housed in the Museum Victoria in Australia organized chronologically within key themes in Victoria's history.
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Extensive group of medals, mostly from the 19th and 20th centuries, and mainly French and Belgian. The medals are arranged alphabetically by artist. Lovely images. In French. |
Vereniging voor Penningkunst (DUTCH MEDAL SOCIETY) Images and descriptions of medals of the 20th and 21st centuries listed by the Dutch Medal Society. In Dutch with English introduction.
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A lovely collection of British medals, mostly from George I to Victoria.
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A compendium of historical medals commemorating the life and works of John Calvin. A comprehensive, private collection of Darrin Brooker and Robert King.
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A wonderfully interesting treatise on The Renaissance of the Cast Medal in Nineteenth Century France, in which they trace the history of the cast medal from 15th century Italy to 19th century France.
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MEDALS OF THE New-York Historical Society's collection A comprehensive and interesting array of commemorative and art medals, mostly American, including a gold strike of the Augustus Saint Gaudens medallion commemorating the centennial of George Washington's inauguration. |
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A marvelous collection of commemorative medals, with images and descriptions, from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. The medals deal mostly with maritime events, including naval battles. |
A diverse collection of medals from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, including: commemorative, art nouveau, art deco and contemporary art medals. Also contains commentary on casting and striking medals. |
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As fine a group of British coronations medals as you will find in private hands published on the web, from the collection of Geoffrey Cope. |
Medaillen der italienischen Renaissance A marvelous book by Cornelius von Fabriczy that includes images and descriptions of nearly 200 medals of the Italian Renaissance. The book, available online, is Digitized by GOOGLE. (in German) |
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A medallic history of the Great Exhibition of 1851, held in London, with images and descriptions of the event and the medals issued for the exhibition. |
Images of a set of 40 medals commissioned by James Mudie commemorating the British military victories of Admiral Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, and the Peninsular Wars against Napoleon. |
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Kunstpedia lists, in rank order of the popularity of their web sites, hundreds of art museums around the world. Though not necessarily devoted to medals, these museums have web sites that are wonderful to visit. Kunstpedia has provided links to all of them. |
A very comprehensive, private collection of Lithuanian medals dating from 1918 to 1940. |
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MEDALS FROM THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION Wonderful site on which is pictured most of the medals from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, as listed in Eglit. Also included is some interesting commentary of the exposition. |
Interesting site depicting medals of Joan of Arc, with images and descriptions. In French. |
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A wonderful book by Cornelius von Fabriczy translated into English. The book, available online, is Digitized by GOOGLE. |
boulton & watt & the soho mint A beautifully illustrated, lovely group of Soho Mint Medals formerly in the holdings of the families of Matthew Boulton and James Watt.
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AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY COLLECTION Includes a catalog of French medals from Amédée Durand's Series Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium, a part of the collection of the American Numismatic Society. |
An important series of books describing Italian medals and Italian medallists, written and compiled by Arnaldo Turricchia, and beautifully presented in this website. |
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An important and comprehensive series of books on Papal Medals by Aldolfo Modesti. |
A lovely, private collection of medals from the Renaissance |
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Online collection of thousands of medals from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, only some of which are pictured. |
SOUTH AFRICAN COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS A searchable database of over a thousand commemorative medals of South African historical interest |
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An absolutely wonderful site with images and historical background of medals from the Renaissance to Modern period (in German)
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